Sail now has the best direct API pricing in the world for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. (3.3x less for realtime, 6x less for async vs. other providers.)
Infrastructure for abundant intelligence

The most efficient inference for
long-horizon agents

Sail is the most cost-efficient API for the best open-source models.

Unbeatable pay-per-token pricing, with $5 in monthly free credits.

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Get started freeSee all models & pricing
Pay ~70% less for tokens
by default, using our drop-in API
(Same model vs. traditional inference provider)
FasterCost-efficient
defaultbalancedflex
Input
$0.09
Cached
$0.006
Output
$0.30
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
USD / 1M tokens
quickstart.py▶ Run
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.sailresearch.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_SAIL_API_KEY",
)

response = client.responses.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017",
    input="Plan and run a deep research report.",
)
Introducing

The Completion Window

Completion windows can be specified per request, allowing you to indicate your latency tolerance and drastically cut token costs for the same intelligence.

WindowSchedulingTypical use casePrice vs. other providers
default (asap)Low-latency servingInteractive UIs, human-in-the-loop30–70% less
balancedWider scheduling windowBackground agents, subagents, and pipelines45–80% less
flexBest-effort schedulingBackground agents, routines, batch jobs, RL rollouts, evals55–85% less
See pricingRead more

Drop-in APIs

OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible (Responses, Chat Completions, and Messages APIs). Migrate to Sail in minutes.

Fine-tunes and RL Rollouts

Serve your own LoRA fine-tunes and run RL rollouts on Sail’s sampling path. Drop-in Tinker integration.

Usage-based, pay-per-token

Send requests immediately and pay as you go, with $5 in free credits every month.

Battle-tested

Trillions of tokens served per week, and ready to serve yours.

Scale your workloads without limits

Send us millions, billions, or trillions of tokens. No sales call required.

Sail is designed to absorb large bursts of traffic, so you can scale on your schedule.

Trusted by teams at the frontier
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Web search & research APIs for AI agents
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AI-powered code review
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Your AI career agent
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AI agent workforce for research

“We and Sail share a belief that background agents are about to do far more useful work. Getting there takes efficient, scalable inference paired with the highest-quality context, including from the web. Sail is building the inference side of that, and we’re glad to be aligned on where this is going.”

Travers Nisbet, Co-founder, Parallel

“Building on Sail lets us ship long-horizon agents with great economics. Trillions of tokens and counting — we’re happy customers.”

Dan Robinson, CEO, Detail.dev

The pursuit of token abundance.

We curate the best open-source models and invest in serving them as efficiently as physically possible, on the full latency vs. cost curve.

From CUDA to scheduling, we ensure no compute goes to waste, and no token costs more than it should.

Because more agents, with more intelligence, can do incredible things.

Our why and how
Pricing plans

A few ways to Sail.

Self-Serve
Freeto start, pay-as-you-go

Get your API key, and let the tokens flow.

Get started with $5 free credit
$5 in free credits every month when you attach a payment method
Usage-based pricing with prepaid credits
Up to 4 seats
200 reserved vCPUs across active Sailboxes
Support via email and the Sail Research Community Slack
Pro
$250/month

Expanded access once you’re ready.

Sign in to upgrade
$100 in included credits every month, plus $150 in your first month
Usage-based pricing with prepaid credits
Unlimited seats
Increased model capacity and higher rate limits
10,000 reserved vCPUs across active Sailboxes
Sailbox creation fees waived for all sizes
US-only inference (20% surcharge)
30-day usage history and 24-hour request history
Priority support via email and the Sail Research Community Slack
Enterprise
Custom

Workloads at extreme scale.

Talk to us
Volume pricing, billed monthly in arrears
HIPAA support with a signed BAA
Signed MSA and DPA
US-only inference (10% surcharge)
Full usage history through the API, subject to retention
Custom model bringups
Uptime and latency SLAs
Early access to new features
Dedicated support via a private Slack channel
All additional Pro benefits

Every agent needs a computer

Sailboxes are full VMs that give long-horizon agents compute they can run indefinitely, with wonderful economics.

Pair them with Sail inference so your agents can read, write, build, and test for hours, days, or even longer without losing state — and at maximal cost efficiency.

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